Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Professor Bo G. Malmström of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The body and soul of man is the most complex and refined chemical machine that we know. Even the simplest forms of life, for example bacteria, are almost immeasurably intricate systems compared to…

Presentation Speech by Professor Bengt Lindberg of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Chemistry is a natural science which is not entirely devoted to the study of natural objects. The art of chemistry also includes the ability on the part of the chemists to prepare or synthesize…

Presentation Speech by Professor Ingvar Lindqvist of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The youth of to-day find it quite natural that there are such things as atoms and molecules. They have often seen molecular models in school and experienced the molecule as something obviously existing. There…

Presentation Speech by Professor Sture Forsén of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, A burning flame – a little everyday miracle that has astonished and fascinated most of us. A chemical reaction that produces heat and light and that during historical times has modified the conditions of…

Presentation Speech by Professor Salo Gronowitz of the Translation form the Swedish text Your Majesties, your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, A prerequisite for all life processes is that molecules recognize each other and bind to each other in order to be able to react. The molecules are said to form complexes. The proteins in…

Presentation Speech by Professor Bo G. Malmström of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, In the beginning there was light. Light played an important role in the origin of life on earth, and the radiation of the sun is an absolute prerequisite for the forms of life…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Håkan Wennerström, Member of the ; Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, 10 December 2007 Professor Håkan Wennerström delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The central theme of chemistry…

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 This year’s chemistry laureate Gerhard Ertl has succeeded in providing a detailed description of how chemical reactions take place on surfaces and has in this way laid the foundation of modern surface chemistry. He is awarded the prize for showing how reliable results can be obtained in this area…

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